HANOI (Reuters) – Authorities in northern Vietnam have ordered people working at a unit of Samsung Display factory in the country to be quarantined after a worker there tested positive for the new coronavirus.
A 25-year-old worker of the EQC-SI unit of the Samsung Display factory in Bac Ninh province tested positive on Sunday, according to a statement released on Monday by the anti-COVID-19 task force of neighbouring Bac Giang province.
Samsung confirmed the case, but said Samsung Display’s production lines in Vietnam had not been affected.
(Reporting by Phuong Nguyen and Khanh Vu; Additional reporting by Heekyong Yang in SEOUL; Editing by James Pearson; Editing by Kim Coghill)
